[lojban] Re: .aunai and .a'unai

[Jorge Llambías <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 5/5/05, Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not having thought about this before, I posit that it might be helpful to
> think of 'desire' not as the noun, but rather along the lines of the
> auxiliary verb 'want'. If you don't want to do something, you're reluctant
> to do it. Hence:
> 
> {.au mi klama le zdani be le mi rirni}
> {.au nai mi klama le zdani be le mi rirni}
> 
> Maybe 'inclination' would be a better gloss than 'desire'.

Yes, that works when the speaker is the agent of the bridi
tagged with {au}, but in the general case the speaker need 
not even be a participant. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes